Exile and Kingdom
Subtitle: History and Apocalypse in the Puritan Migration to America (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 22, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780521521420
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; History: World; History; History - General History; British Isles; USA; Europe - Great Britain - General; Western Europe - General; History / Europe / Western; History / Great Britain; History-Europe - Great Britain - General
First sentence: When describing the impressive growth and revival of learning during the sixteenth century, Francis Bacon suggested that the source for this important cultural and intellectual transformation, later known as the "Renaissance" and "humanism," should be seen in the context of the Protestant Reformation.